MEPIS grundgingly complies with the GPL, Aug 01, 2006

MEPIS LLC, the popular Ubuntu-based Linux distributor, has finally released its distribution source code under the GPL. Warren Woodford, the Morgantown, WV-based company's CEO, is not one bit pleased with being forced to do so.

This month, however, the holy grail came within sight with Szabolcs Szakacsits from the Linux-NTFS team presenting a new beta NTFS filesytem driver built to work with FUSE, an extensible system for userspace filesystems.

Google has begun testing a new service for hosting open-source projects that leverages its famed search engine to help developers find interesting software to which they can contribute.

Novell on Friday said its SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 platform, which launched on July 17, was met with an extremely warm reception, with 165,000 Web surfers from across the globe downloading components of the platform within the first 10 days, according to a July 28 Novell release on InternetAdSales.com.

Boeing has awarded Wind River Systems a contract to embed its version of Linux into a new military aircraft, the software company said Monday.

A spokesperson for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program revealed July 31 that the countries of Nigeria, Brazil, Argentina, and Thailand have each committed to buy 1 million Linux laptops through the U.S.-based program.

Open-source project Fedora has launched Fedora Women, a forum and mailing list, in an effort to encourage more female developers to participate in its community.

Motorola shipped more than a million Linux-based 'Ming' phones in China last quarter, opening new doors for the operating system

A senior Red Hat executive today maintained the Xen open source virtualisation environment was not yet ready for enterprise use, despite "unbelievable" customer demand and the fact rival Novell has already started shipping the software.

Years of speculation and wishful thinking have not yielded a Linux version from Adobe, nor does one look likely to come anytime soon.

Wind River has updated its commercial embedded Linux distribution, along with three vertical-market "Platforms" based on it.

The "portable" version of Firefox 1.5.0.5 is now released, developer John Haller reports. "Portable Firefox" is the Mozilla Firefox web browser integrated with a "launcher" that makes it a fully portable app, enabling users to take their bookmarks, extensions, and saved passwords with them to whatever computer they're working on.

While releasing Linux 2.4.33-rc3 Marcelo Tosatti has announced that in future Willy Tarreau will maintain the Linux kernel series 2.4. Four and a half years ago Mr. Tosatti had at the age of 18 taken over the position of maintainer of the kernel series 2.4 from Version 2.4.15 upwards from Linus Torvalds.

The second draft of a revised General Public License has been released, but Linus Torvalds--founder and leader of the best-known software project governed by the GPL--remains unconvinced of its merits.

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